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International Air Transport Association (IATA), has announced global passenger traffic results for 2017, with Nigerian, South African, Ethiopian, and other African carriers pooling a 7.5 per cent rise in passenger traffic compared to 2016.

According to IATA, capacity rose at less than half the rate of demand (3.6 per cent), and load factor jumped 2.5 percentage points to 70.3 per cent. While indicators in South Africa are consistent with falling economic output, “Nigeria has returned to growth, helped by the recent rise in oil prices,” the association stated.

The African carriers, which accounts for 2.2 per cent of the global market share, showed marginal improvement when compared with other regions in the year under review.Global passenger traffic results show that demand (revenue passenger kilometres or RPKs) for the year ended 31 December rose 7.6 per cent compared to 2016.

This was well above the 10-year average annual growth rate of 5.5 per cent. While the rate of demand growth …

Hundreds of people gathered on Thursday in Cairo for a candlelight vigil for the 66 people killed last week when an EgyptAir plane crashed into the Mediterranean in mysterious circumstances (see HERE). See photos below;

Former vice president Atiku Abubakar yesterday received in audience a delegation of Republic of Niger led by its Minister of Agriculture Alh Albade Abouba at his Maitaima residence in Abuja. See photos below;

Sarah Imoleaya Ighidabo, a student in the Department of Library Science, Faculty of Education, Bayero UniversityKano (BUK), has ended her life by taking Sniper. She left a suicide note that read: “I will not apply for course suspension my academics is all I live for, if I can’t get it right, fuck existing.”
The Edo State indegene had failed an elective course in the Faculty of Science, after missing examinations and was made to repeat the course....